Test machinery and equipment to ensure that it is safe and conforms to performance specifications.

“Test machinery and equipment to ensure that it is safe and conforms to performance specifications.” is a supplemental task performed by Petroleum Engineers. Among the occupation's 23 rated tasks, workers place it 22nd by importance (#2 most important). About 36% of workers say it is relevant to their job.

This is a single occupation-specific task statement from O*NET. The figures below describe how central the task is to the job and what independent studies measure about AI and this kind of work — not a prediction that the task will be automated.

Work activities this task rolls up to

O*NET groups concrete tasks into broader work activities shared across many occupations.

• Test performance of equipment or systems. in Inspecting Equipment, Structures, or Materials

AI exposure

The OpenAI / Eloundou “GPTs are GPTs” study rates this task E0. No direct exposure — current language models give little or no time savings on this task.

Exposure measures whether a model could meaningfully speed the task up — it is an estimate of overlap with model capabilities, not a measure of whether the work will be done by software. The study's intermediate score (β) for this task is 0.00. Automation potential label: T1.

Other tasks in this occupation

• Specify and supervise well modification and stimulation programs to maximize oil and gas recovery. · importance 4.2
• Monitor production rates, and plan rework processes to improve production. · importance 4.1
• Maintain records of drilling and production operations. · importance 4.0
• Analyze data to recommend placement of wells and supplementary processes to enhance production. · importance 4.0
• Assist engineering and other personnel to solve operating problems. · importance 4.0
• Assign work to staff to obtain maximum utilization of personnel. · importance 4.0
• Direct and monitor the completion and evaluation of wells, well testing, or well surveys. · importance 4.0
• Develop plans for oil and gas field drilling, and for product recovery and treatment. · importance 4.0
• Assess costs and estimate the production capabilities and economic value of oil and gas wells, to evaluate the economic viability of potential drilling sites. · importance 3.8
• Simulate reservoir performance for different recovery techniques, using computer models. · importance 3.8
• Confer with scientific, engineering, and technical personnel to resolve design, research, and testing problems. · importance 3.8
• Design and implement environmental controls on oil and gas operations. · importance 3.7
• Supervise the removal of drilling equipment, the removal of any waste, and the safe return of land to structural stability when wells or pockets are exhausted. · importance 3.7
• Interpret drilling and testing information for personnel. · importance 3.7

See all tasks on the Petroleum Engineers page.

Sources for this page

Every figure above traces to a named public dataset and the exact release below — not hand-written opinion. See the full methodology for what each measure does and does not mean.

• O*NET 30.3 U.S. Department of Labor / National Center for O*NET Development
• “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130 OpenAI / academic

Data compiled June 2, 2026. Figures are estimates, not advice.

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  title  = {Test machinery and equipment to ensure that it is safe and conforms to performance specifications.},
  author = {{Singulariki}},
  year   = {2026},
  note   = {O*NET 30.3; “GPTs are GPTs” (Eloundou et al.) arXiv 2303.10130. Accessed June 7, 2026},
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